Sound, and its shadow, silence, can be represented
in various ways; most traditionally by notation,
which itself has many different models. But sound
can be represented also by image, or text and
even cities, buildings, people. Therefore sound
may be represented spatially by the language of
architecture.
Within Sarajevo an incessant rhythm of tension
exists through its temporal discontinuity due
to the war. The city has experienced an abrupt
transition. I have expressed this interruption
with the discontinuity of sound in the city; the
noise of destruction and the silence of memory
incongruously juxtaposed to the sounds of everyday
life; the absorption and reflection into the present.
The uninterrupted relationship of noise,
sound and silence reveals this interruption
as it exists solely in a temporal dimension. The
auditory landscape uncovers a spatial experience
in the city through the course of time as the
intervention spaces are experienced physically.
The interventions are based in acoustics, using
sound as the raw material. They pursue connections
that interact and combine, in order to fill the
spaces with a simultaneous attraction of the architectural
and the sonorous.
Three sites are identified within the city which
display this discontinuity of sound; noise vs.
sound, sound vs. silence, silence vs. noise. It
is this condition that I wish to emphasize through
displacement, memory and imagination by adding
the third missing component through the architecture
of acoustics. Thus my aim is to sensitize the
ear to the auditory landscape of the city through
an incongruous juxtaposition of sound, an exaggerated
contrast to the sound condition from the past
and present of these sites, to distort our visual
perception.
In each site, the meaning, the acoustic intervention,
is invisible but the invisible is not the contradictory
of the visible, the current spatial and auditory
experience: the visible itself has an invisible
inner framework, and the invisible is the secret
counterpart of the visible, it appears only within
it. Therefore what will be physically experienced
and perceived as a discontinuity,is in effect
a necessary closure of the cycle.